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VOLUME 19—No. , 22
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U. S. Leaders Oppose Youth Recruitment
Israel Offers Special Status for
Zionists i n Cooperative Exchange
JERUSALEM—Premier David Ben-Gurion is favoring granting of a special legal
status in Israel to the World Zionist Organ ization, providing that the Zionist Congress •
which opens here next week pladges that i t would cooperate to the fullest extent with
the Israel Government regardless of the co mposition of the World Zionist Executive
and the Israel government—both of which a re still to be named.
A report to this effect was presented to the Jewish Agency Executive by Dr. Na-
hum Goldmann, chairman of the American Section of the Agency, and Mrs. Rose Hal-
perin, president of Hadssah, after talks wit h Mr. Ben-Gurion. A subcommittee was ap-
pointed Tuesday to work out a formula for a resolution detailing the status of the World
Zionist Organization in Israel and to report back to the full Agency session.
The Jewish Agency Executive meeting, in p enary session here, on Tuesday, decided unan-
imously to recommend to the forthcoming 23rd World Zionist Congress that Dr. N. Crold-
mann be-named president of the Congress. When Dr. Goldmann was first approached to
accept the nomination, he conditioned his acc eptance upon the nomination being unani-
mous. This led to a recess in the Agency meeting while the various parties represented on
the Executive discussed the matter and agreed.
.Saved by Hias:
Rabbi B E R E L SCHOCHET,
46, one of Europe's leading rabbis, with his wife and ten chil-
dren on their arrival in New York en route to Canada under
the auscpices of HIAS, the Hebrew Imrnigr'ant Aid Society.
Rabbi Schochet was left without a congregation in The Hauge,
-The Netherlands, when the Jewish community there became
so small that it could no longer afford the services of a spirit-
ual leader. HIAS arranged for the family's immigration and
transportation to Toronto, Canada, where a rabbinical post
awaits the rabbi. With him, and Mrs. Schochet, are: SCHUL-
AMITH, 20, DAVID, 19, RUTH, 17, IMMANUEL, 1'5,
JOSEPH, 12, EZRA,8, RACHEL, 6, ELISCHA, 5, OBADIAH,
3, and AMI NA, 1.
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The Congress will be asked to allocate $2,800,00'0 annually for the promotion of the Chalutz
movement and for other Zionist youth work, Eliahu Dobkin, member of the Agency Executive,
told a world conference of Zionist youth groups here.
An appeal for intensified efforts to raise more funds for the Youth Aliya in order to facili-
tate larger immigration of Jewish youths to Isr ael was voiced at the conference by Moshe Kol,
director of the Jewish Agency's repartment for y outh immigration. Mr. Kol said that 100,000
Jewish youths could be brought to Israel during the next two years if sufficient funds for youth
immigration were available.
American members of the Jewish Agency executive strongly opposed a demand advanced
by Israeli members that the recruitment of American Jewish youth for agricultural pioneer-
ing in Israel should become the primary func tion of the Zionist movement in the United
States,. at the Jewish Agency meeting. The American members emphasized that the atmos-
phere in the United States is not conducive to such a move, although the recruitment of
Chalutzim should be encouraged ,end supported.
The view of the American members was presented at the session by Hayim Greenberg and
Mrs. Rose Halprin. Mr. Greenberg argued that the Zionist movement in America should concen-
trate on youth education which would inevitably result in the emigration of Jewish youth to
Israel; it would be wasted effort to call for "in-gathering American Jewish youth" to Israel.•
Opposing Mr. Greenberg's views were Berl. Locker, chairman of the Jewish Agency executive,
and Eliahu . Dobkin, head of the Agency's immigration department. • Mr. Dobkin said that had
the Zionist movement in the United States spent as much money on the 'training and recruit-
ment of Chalutzim as is being spent for the construction of one Jewish community center in
America, there would have been a warm response on the part of American Jewish youth.
Mr. Dobkin warned that the success of Israel depends on the Jews from Oriental countries
now migrating in large numbers to the !Jewish state and on the flow of Chalitzim from the West-
ern world who can bring their skills to Israel. The Zionist youth movement in the United States,
he said, must be expanded, Zionist youth centers must be established and Hebrew must be
taught to the Jewish youth everywhere "in order to bridge the lingual gap" between the coun-
tries outside of Israel and the Jewish state. (Earlier Stories on Page 3).
Ben-Gurion Dedicates Libraty
Gifts by Schavers to Bet Bed
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—American Jewish Press Photo
'Sco- uts Pray at Sea::
Jewish Boy Sdouts
:f.n route to the World Jamboree in Austria are pictured as
hey attended Saturday services aboard ship on their way to
e. Ahe big gathering. Rabbi SAMSON SHAIN, the Jewish Jam-
:,,:ooree Chaplain, leads the davening,
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David Ben-Gurion.
—American Jewish Press Photo
Stave Off Death:
Gifts including the pur-
chase of expensive drugs to stave off dreaded leukimia, from
Jewish residents of New York City are helping keep nine-
year-old PETER PENNA alive. The non-Jewish youth's plight
was disclosed in the New -York Mirror and a host of Jews
tatished to assist Peter. •
Morris Schaver
Emma Schaver
A. H. Friedland
TEL AVIV, (JTA) —Premier David Be n-:Gurion last week-end dedicated a new -li-
brary here, the gift of Morris and Emma Sch aver, of Detroit, Mich. The new library, Bet
Berl, includes 20,000 volumes from the collection of the late Dr. A. H. Friedland, Hebrew
educator and scholar, of Cleveland.
In his speech opening the new library, Mr. Ben-Gurion said that prior to the estab-
lishment of the Jewish state, the Diaspora had given and Israel had received. Now, how-
ever, he said, since the birth of Israel, the situation had been reversed. Israel's war of
liberation, he said, had raised the stature of American Jewry. Israel, he added, had
made three gifts to the Jews of America—a sense of pride, a consciousness that they
could become "unhypenated"' Jews, and a link with their own old country* such as all
Americans have.
Mr. and Mrs. Schaver left for Israel last month with their son, Isaac, to be present
at the dedication of the library. They started the fund for this imposirtg building with
a gift of $50,000 made seven years ago on Mr. Schaver's 50th birthday, and have since
more than trebled their gifts.
Mr. Schaver, who is one of Detroit's on tstanding Zionist and communal leaders, is a
delegate to the 23rd World Zionist Congress which opens in Jerusalem next Wednesday.
The late A. H. Friedland's library was presented to Bet Berl last year by his widow
on her visit to Israel, Dr. Friedland was one of the outstanding Hebrew educators in
English-speaking countries and was the author of scores of children's books which stilt
are used in Hebrew schools in this country, in Canada, England and South Africa.